The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. Since the strange leads to questions and undermines familiar tradition, it serves to elevate reason to ultimate significance . . .
The very existence of popular city guidebooks, with their em phases on the discovery, the curious, the different, are an illustration of Professor Tillichâ€™s...

2015-11-15 13:09

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. Since the strange leads to questions and undermines familiar tradition, it serves to elevate reason to ultimate significance . . .

The very existence of popular city guidebooks, with their em phases on the discovery, the curious, the different, are an illustration of Professor Tillich’s point. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.
They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.

2015-09-14 01:29

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.

They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.

... the chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life. They mean more life. Life is an end ...

2014-02-22 06:38

... the chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life. They mean more life. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.
They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.

2015-09-14 01:29

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.

They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. Since the strange leads to questions and undermines familiar tradition, it serves to elevate reason to ultimate significance . . .
The very existence of popular city guidebooks, with their em phases on the discovery, the curious, the different, are an illustration of Professor Tillichâ€™s...

2015-11-15 13:09

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. Since the strange leads to questions and undermines familiar tradition, it serves to elevate reason to ultimate significance . . .

The very existence of popular city guidebooks, with their em phases on the discovery, the curious, the different, are an illustration of Professor Tillich’s point. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.
They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.

2015-09-14 01:29

interior parts of the buildings: the elevators & the corridors of high-rise public housing. ---> eye-policed city streets.

They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. ......They've been designed in an imitation of upper- class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men.